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FMCG and retail firms join forces in a bid to stabilise the value of plastic recyclate in the UK

Envirotec Magazine

z International, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever announce plans to finance and launch £1m Flexible Plastic Fund. Manufacturers, retailers and recyclers urged to join the collaboration. Fund designed to drive progress towards household collection of flexible plastic for recycling.

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Let's reinvent retail and change the way we shop

Business Green

Building a greener future for retail requires brave conversations, big risks and hardwiring sustainability into the fabric of the business, explains Selfridges' Daniella Vega. Reflecting on the climate crisis, the devastating rates of bio-diversity loss and the suffocating flow of plastics into the ocean, I feel a sense of overwhelm.

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More than 500 fashion retailers back supply chain deforestation pledge

Business Green

More than 500 leading fashion brands and retailers including H&M, Zara and Walmart have now signed up to a major new global pledge to avoid using products and materials associated with deforestation in their supply chains, and to instead shift towards sourcing low carbon alternatives.

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Retail Business Sustainability Guide: Retail Sustainability Initiatives and Trends

Green Business Bureau

Retail business sustainability. Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program. What is retail sustainability? To operate indefinitely, a retail brand must meet environmental, social, and economic demands.

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Sustainability Guide for Hotels and Motels: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

Further, hotel waste consists largely of common recyclable materials – aluminum cans, cardboard, paper, plastic bottles and landscape waste – all materials that could be processed into a new useful material. Being a sustainable business also means caring for community wellbeing and working to be socially and ethically responsible.

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Sustainable Fashion Guide: 8 Tips to Kick-Start Your Sustainable Fashion Brand Company

Green Business Bureau

This supports a circular economic model whereby fewer resources are demanded reducing water demand. This also includes their social responsibility values, making sure they practice ethical labor and do not utilize slave or child labor. Tip #6: Reduce fossil fuel demand. Tip #4: Get to Know Your Suppliers and Vendors.

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Diamonds are forever? Clutch of gem firms to draw up 'carbon neutral' roadmap

Business Green

De Beers and nine of its suppliers and customers to draw up net zero plans in response to growing consumer demand for responsibly sourced diamonds. A detailed plan for achieving the net zero goal will be shared by the end of Q1 2021, he added.